Last Updated on Saturday, 3 May 2025, 12:36 by Writer
The father of deceased 11-year old Adriana Younge on Tuesday appealed for an end to violence, in the wake of looting, destruction of public property, burning and blocking of roads.
“Everybody who out there who say the love Adriana and want to be there for Adriana; Adriana won’t like violence. I telling you all the truth from me heart. From me heart, Adriana don’t like violence. Adriana not a violent girl so if you all please love me daughter, you all stop the violence,” Subrian Younge said on TikTok.
Mr Younge said he was not against protest, but they should do so in a “normal way, please.”
He conceded that after he was informed by the three-member team of foreign forensic pathologists that his daughter died from drowning and that samples would be sent overseas for testing, “I could of lose my mind.”
Due to the unrest, government early Tuesday morning banned gatherings and public meetings from 12:30 a.m. to 5 a.m.
Police clashed with sympathisers, protesters and looters across the city at various times throughout Monday afternoon and night as well as during the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday.
Speaking with reporters Monday night outside the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s mortuary, Mr Younge had rejected the finding that his daughter died by drowning.
Police have since issued wanted bulletins for several persons who are accused of inciting public terror.
President Irfaan Ali said Monday night that the autopsy showed that Adriana did not die by forced drowning 0r was otherwise killed and her body placed in the pool at Double Day Hotel, Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo.
Lawyer for the family, Darren Wade said the examination of the body showed that there were no broken bones or inflicted injuries.
He said the pathologists did not find any evidence of cotton will in the the nostrils at that stage.
Mr Wade said the family was still pressing for an international investigation by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police into the circumstances surrounding Adrian’s death.
The family, relatives, Tuschen villagers and sections of the wider Guyanese society were incensed by a Guyana Police Force release last Wednesday that showed that the girl was seen leaving in an identifiable car but her body turned up in the pool on Thursday.
The then Region Three (West Demerara-Essequibo Islands) Divisional Commander, Assistant Police Commissioner Khalid Mandall was subsequently transferred from the division and sent on administrative leave to make way for the internal probe.
Three other lawmen had also been placed under close arrest.
The hotel owner and several employees were also questioned.
Among the places destroyed by fire during the mayhem were the Double Day Hotel and the residence of the hotelier.
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